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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Sweden and the Disease of Prejudice

A prominent peacenik whose family had survived
the massacre and ethnic cleansing of the Jews of Hebron in 1929 was being
interviewed by Swedish TV at the start of this century.Suddenly and without warning this also prominent
Swedish journalist verbally attacked him.More than most of us, this man of peace should have had a response but he
was shocked and had no response to his Swedish abuser.Palestinian suffering had become the
unquestioned fact of European (and much of the rest of the world) orthodoxy.

The problem is that then as now, Sweden like much of Europe
has a national identity that is increasingly porous and ill-defined and
progressively more schizophrenic. In its eagerness to appreciate the cultural
eccentricities of its newest inhabitants and in deference to those differences, many states in Europe have created a two tier legal system that forgives
or turns a blind eye to many crimes that may be attributable to cultural or religious differences.

And a simple example will suffice.Aside from South
Africa / Lesotho
(depending on the report) either country of which has an even higher incidence
of rape than Sweden has, Sweden is now
by far, the rape capital of the rest of the world.Even worse – reports suggest that the Swedish
statistics hide under-reporting of rape by somewhere between 400% and
900%.At the current rate it is believed
that one in four Swedish women will be raped at some time during their
lifetime.That includes those who were
children when they were violated.

In 2002 it emerged that 85% of convicted rapists
were identified as immigrants or second generation Swedes.And that figure has continued to go up but no
official reports are now allowed to tell the story.

Some forty years ago I was living on a kibbutz
and we had some Swede’s temporarily living amongst us. The atmosphere was
international and it was exciting but sometimes we even managed to discuss
issues of a serious nature. So our Swedish friends said that in their country
there was nothing happening to agitate popular emotion and sometimes there was
a feeling that Sweden
needed a war to awaken its people from their emotional torpor, their
intellectual indifference. Sweden
has not fought a war for some 200 years (The Swedish–Norwegian War of 1814) nevertheless
in this expression of collective Swedish insanity lies the reason behind Israel’s
European misfortune.

The traditional Jewish bogeyman is the perfect animator
for Sweden’s
bored citizens and it allows them to forgive the rapist. It does not mean that
we have supplanted the Muslim immigrants’ crimes against women but they can
forgive the rapist; it is just Jews (or Zionists) that must bare collective
guilt for Sweden’s
debasement.Hence the verbal and physical attacks
on Jews and Zionists that occur in Swedish society across the board: The Swedish Church, the Swedish
Press, its monarchy and its government.No narrative that differs from the Palestinian one is permitted in Sweden.A self-image based on absolute tolerance,
ironically, cannot suffer disagreement. But even the Swedes must have their
object of hate to alleviate or distract them from the tensions within Swedish
society which were brought about by all the impossible contradictions created by a Muslim
immigration that rejects much of the fundamental bases of that same Swedish
society such as equality and tolerance.

And the Jewish people are a minuscule
percentage of the global human population so it does not matter at all what
technologies or medical discoveries emerge from Israel. While every year the
world’s Muslim population increases at three times the global Jewish population
the economic and political power that is represented by that Muslim growth far outweighs
any Jewish contribution to global society. That is the painful reality that Israel must
come to terms with.

If Sweden and in fact Europe is a lost cause then Israel must
disentangle itself from its European connection and actively examine its
relationship with the remainder of global society.

In practical terms it means that in the Western
world and at the United Nations antisemitism and its proxy anti-Zionism are both given free range without negative consequences. It means that every lie becomes the new truth. It also
means that there are no negative consequences to the inflated Muslim self-image
and Islamisms' associated LibLeft fascist accomplices.

To return to the Swedish failure, if all
truth is relative to the situation as presented then there is no truth, only
narratives.If history is trivialized
then there are no lessons to be learnt from it. Under conditions such as these,
the Swedish acceptance of a radical racist Islamic or Arab nationalist
narrative is both understandable and almost irredeemable. This is the
sickness that afflicts all of Europe. The continent that nurtured Western Civilization is dying.

Sweden rediscovered its sense of purpose
when it embraced its refugees and their often spurious narrative of victim-hood.
Its intoxication with a liberal democratic but essentially amoral social model
meant that blame became a non-word in the Swedish lexicon.Such generosity had to have its scapegoat to distract the people from the negative consequences of their failed social model.

If possession of a holistic group identity is anathema
because in a globalized world, nationalism is viewed as a anachronism and therefore it is understood to create a negative emotional space around which nothing good can
flourish, then by doing away with the greater national group identity, all
crimes can be forgiven because they are the product, not of the group, but of
aberrant individual behavior.According
to this narrative, “ethnic identity politics” is good because it is not
European while European nationalism is bad because it is imperialistic. This manipulation of identity makes
antisemitism all the more puzzling except when it is viewed as an attack on the
individual and not the group.Zionism is damned because according to the prevalent anti-Western narrative it is an expression of a particular European group
identity which should have been suppressed because of its "inherently imperialist nature".Jews are all “European” (incorrect, but facts are
unimportant).Jews have suffered because
of European nationalism so they have no excuse for possessing any belief. The retention
of any antiquated concept as part of personal identity simply reinforces the
religious prejudices of the morally self-superior Swede. It is a truly all encompassing narrative that reinforces not just Sweden’s but most European
antisemitic thinking.

Pan-Arab, Palestinian and greater Muslim group
identities are more difficult to brush aside.Muslim antisemitism is based on a theology of conquest, dominion and
domination.It is therefore inseparable from
the Arab and greater Muslim anti-Zionist narrative.It is impossible to disassemble that paradigm
from its religious roots without denying their legitimacy (which would be
heresy).It may be easier to reject the
contemporary historical lies which most Muslim are fed.

But in any debate on the issue of
Israel-Palestine or inter-religious dialogue there will always be a closed mind
that accepts no debate around any inconsistency of approach.To allow for self-doubt within an atmosphere
of political orthodoxy would destroy a consensus that unites a nation whose
tremendous internal problems it is unwilling to face up to.

As Pascal Bruckner has written:

“The die-hard student radicals
that Bruckner (a French philosopher) knew in Paris shared a few traits with his father (a
French Nazi collaborator), on the other end of the political spectrum:
self-certain, righteous anger and the will to expose world-historical villains.
Not for nothing was the extreme left infected by antisemitism, because the
anti-Semite always knows exactly who is guilty.”The extreme left and the extreme right are
but two sides of the same coin. Their poison has leached into and polluted the
centre ground.

Sweden’s malignancy infects the rest of
Europe because Europe’s separate societies
have steadfastly refused to inoculate themselves against the antisemitic
contagion.The Muslim demographic
expansion into Europe has only accelerated the
re-oxygenation of this infestation. I
see little chance of any remission in this disease and the current refugee
crisis will only exacerbate its symptoms.

7 comments:

I know that you are intelligent enough to know that the parts about rape in Sweden are completely false and made up. It makes me wonder why you would spread such racist propaganda? Not only are they false, they are laughable false. The complete opposite is the truth.

then it is instructive that the international reports consistently demonstrate the opposite to what you are saying and that since 2002 the identity of rapists is concealed. You should explain that one as well - but I would guess that the truth is inconvenient - even when it matches a pattern of Islamic intolerance and violence towards women and girls that is all pervasive within Western society and most certainly exacerbated by Western Dress codes and Islamist misogyny.

Which complete opposite is true there Anonymous? It's now Sweden has the lowest incidence of rape in Europe or that it's the Swedes are raping the migrants? OK, back to reality. Napoleon said that it was notable that men would die for little bits of ribbon. He was referring to medals in war and how belief rules even over staying alive. The Swedes seem to have compassion for victims as their belief and like Napoleon's soldiers they'll enthusiastically destroy their lives in order to hold on to their belief. My daughter was in Sweden last year and I asked her if she saw any Muslim migrants with a torch in one hand and a match in the other. She said none, only blonde Nordic types wherever she went, so I presume our Middle Eastern brethren are stuck in ghettos and completely out of sight in Sweden. This may help to explain one of the reason the Swedes are so merrily and blithely destroying Sweden with their compassion.

Speaking as an Israeli and as a Jew - the one condemned by these less than over-bright Swedes - any ill that befalls Sweden is fine by me. If Sweden is the rape capital of Europe, good! Swedish women ALSO condemn Israel routinely and pray for our destruction. If Swedish society is destroyed by its idiotic policy of taking in hostile "migrants", good! They deserve it!. Our leaders in Israel are slow and somewhat stupid, but they will come round and eventually do what is necessary to protect us from the evil that is Europe.